It Ain't No Crime

Album: Real Things (2007)
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Songfacts®:

  • In this song, Joe Nichols plays the part of a guy who spends his days in his front yard, soaking up the sun and alternating between the lounge chair and the kiddie pool. His neighbors are horrified by his indolence and try to jolt a little ambition into him, to no avail. "It ain't no crime," he tells them, "if I wanna kick back and kill a little time."

    "It's a fun song to sing," Nichols told The Boot. "It kind of brings out the lazy in people, and I'm glad to do that."
  • "It Ain't No Crime" is one of many clever, lighthearted songs in Joe Nichols' catalog - his most famous song on this list is "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off," released two years earlier in 2005.
  • The guy in this song has different girls coming by all the time, which ain't no crime. When the song was released on his 2007 album Real Things, Nichols was one of the most eligible bachelors in country music, but that changed just a few months later when he married Heather Singleton, whom he first started dating back in 1995 when he was 18. They were on-again, off-again for many years - Joe says it took him a lot longer to mature than she did.
  • The song was written by Tom Shapiro, Tony Martin and Mark Nesler. The trio also wrote Josh Turner's "Time Is Love" and Keith Urban's "You Look Good In My Shirt."

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